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Arthur Golden

Born

in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States

December 06, 1956

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Arthur Sulzberger Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).

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Arthur Golden’s books

Average rating: 4.16 · 2,134,289 ratings · 39,968 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,124,001 ratings — published 1997 — 340 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	さゆり上 [Sayuri 1] by Arthur Golden, アーサー・ゴールデン, 小川高義 (翻訳) 4.38 avg rating — 574 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	さゆり下 [Sayuri 2] by Arthur Golden, アーサー・ゴールデン, 小川高義 (翻訳) 4.47 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flibbity Jibbit and Dora: The True Blue, Too Blue Dolphin 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untitled Novel 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Gordon Shanghai Translation Publishing House propaganda bookstore 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Level 6: Memoirs of a Geisha (Pearson English Graded Readers) by Arthur Golden (2009-08-03) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Retriever Family: The Big Mixed-Up Feelings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Retriever Family: The Storm Inside 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha Book by Arthur Golden, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Arthur Golden

さゆり [Sayuri] (2 books)
by

Arthur Golden,

アーサー・ゴールデン,

小川高義 (翻訳)

4.43 avg rating — 1,070 ratings

Quotes by Arthur Golden (?)

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, loss

1794 likes

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, hope

1304 likes

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

1082 likes

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Polls

June 2026 New School Classics Poll

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin 1955, 192 pgs.

27 votes, 25.5%

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2003, 371 pgs.

26 votes, 24.5%

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 1997, 503 pgs.

19 votes, 17.9%

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1975, 181 pgs.

10 votes, 9.4%

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 1969, 274 pgs.

9 votes, 8.5%

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard 1974, 288 pgs.

7 votes, 6.6%

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger 1964, 422 pgs.

5 votes, 4.7%

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker 1973, 336 pgs.

3 votes, 2.8%

106 total votes

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